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This engraving depicting a Jewish woman in Cairo, Egypt, is from Cornelis de Bruyn’s travelogue, Reizen van Corn de Bruyn door de vermaardste deelen van Klein Asia, de eylanden Scio, Rhodus, Cyprus…
Before World War I, Bomberg depicted the East End of London, where he had grown up, as a site of immigrant vitality. After a harrowing experience in the trenches and difficulties after the war…
Gross was known for his wooden sculptures and his focus on the human figure. He first studied art on the Lower East Side of Manhattan when he came to the United States and he later taught there at the…
Adam Muszka likely painted this scene from memory. As a child, he had attended cheder, a traditional Jewish elementary school, in his native Piotrków Trybunalski, a Polish town of about 51,000…
Segalove mines her own life for personal narratives as a source for her feminist, conceptual, video, and performance art. Jewish Boys, a photograph of text, tells an anecdote about her first day in a…
For her book Florida Family Portrait, Gelles photographed her family in the same pose over twenty years during trips to visit her parents in Florida. A comment on family, growth, aging, death, and the…
